Royal Literary Fund

PG reported to the Royal Literary Fund her unsubduable aspiration . . . to perfect before she dies, a work that will evince, she has not lived in vain. She had such a work on...

IK told the Royal Literary Fund that she had written part of a historical novel, but found it hard to complete because of her sense that literary styles had changed.

Among works that SSW claimed when corresponding, late in life, with the Royal Literary Fund were a Life of Alfred the Great and a work entitled Romance and Reason in two volumes.

After 1812: SSW , now a teacher, returned to her early interest in children's books, and produced, she told the Royal Literary Funda vast number of books, of which she can pretend no merit...

Following this highly productive year, AB wrote several times more to beg for subsistence from the Royal Literary Fund . Despite her still generally favourable reviews, she ceased to refer, as she had in her...

IK told the Royal Literary Fund that she had written ten novels. But it seems she underestimated: in addition to the eleven mentioned below, she listed an untraced title (not listed by OCLC or The...

The anonymous epistolary novel The History of Eliza Musgrove, published by June 1769, is ascribed to AW in some sources; but Phebe Gibbes claimed it as her own work in a letter to the...

PG issued a third novel this same year, The Fruitless Repentance; or, The History of Miss Kitty Le Fever (reprinted in facsimile by Garland in 1974). She told the Royal Literary Fund that...

IK told the Royal Literary Fund in 1832 that she had written an Epitome of General Knowledge, published by subscription by a non-London publisher, a French Grammar, and Literary Information, written for...

A three-volume, anonymous Minerva novel, The Family Party, 1791, has also been widely ascribed to MJY since Dorothy Blakey first made the attribution in 1939 from a Minerva catalogue of 1814. This seems...

PG seems not to have claimed Jemima. A Novel, which was advertised by William Lane of the Minerva Press in March 1795 as by the Author of Zoraida.

EM visited Bordighera in Italy and Cannes in France, with a travel or holiday grant from the Royal Literary Fund .

SB helped to support various family members through her writings: most of her applications to the Royal Literary Fund cite the needs of ill or orphaned sisters, nieces, and nephews as dependents on her. She...

They continued to help her, but with smaller sums than when her husband was alive. In 1830 she told them about the more than five pounds she had spent advertising for a situation as an...

ATP appealed for money, apparently for the first time, to the Royal Literary Fund , which made her a grant of £20.